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We have yet another first for the ′historic′ Barack Obama presidency! If being the first US president to preside over a downgrading of US bonds, or failing to pass annual federal budgets were not enough for you, try this one out for size. According to a newly completed research study by the CDC′s National Center for Health Services, the life expectancy rate has declined for the first time in America! Not only are those between the ages of 45 through 55 dying younger, but the death rate itself has increased from 724.6/100,000 to 733.1/100,000. Those born in 2015 are now expected to live only 78.8 years as opposed to 78.9 years. In addition to those dying from chronic diseases like diabetes, there has been an increase in accidental deaths and suicides as well.

Talk about ′Social Justice′! A group of current and former African-American employees of CNN have filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against CNN, as well as its parent company, Time Warner & Turner. A story at AJC, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, two more Black employees filed the lawsuit following an earlier lawsuit filed back in January by DeWayne Walker. Walker, a TV producer, believes that CNN allegedly discriminated against him by not promoting him. He worked for CNN for some 13 years and claims that he was not promoted due to race. Walker′s lawsuit is for $50 Million dollars.

Was there ever any doubt that Time Magazine would name President-Elect Donald J. Trump their ′Person of the Year′ for 2016? Certainly none since the election. I′m sure if Hillary Clinton had won, they would have named her for the honor. But, even while Time pays some tribute to Trump, they still could not help themselves from casting him in a negative light. Right on the cover, Donald Trump is described as the ″President of the divided states of America″. There is hypocrisy for you, as The Media has played a far larger role in dividing the nation than Trump ever did.

December 7, 1941 was, as FDR put it, a ″Day of Infamy″. A fast moving Japanese fleet centered on 6 aircraft carriers launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the attack, which brought the United States of America into World War 2. Americans had already been fighting prior to this, some serving as volunteers for foreign governments, others as part of American operations, such as escorting ship convoys across the Atlantic. But, after Pearl Harbor, there was no mystery any longer. The nation mobilized for total warfare.

I really had to chuckle this morning when I watched ″New Day″ on CNN spend most of its first half-hour blathering on about ′Fake News′. They, like the Washington Post and New York Times, have taken ′Fake News′ to a whole new level. Pretty much about 90% of their stories about the Donald Trump 2016 campaign were ′Fake News′. So, now they are all bent out of shape because of a ′Fake News′ story which originated on 4chan of all places. This one was about a conspiracy theory which tied a Washington, DC pizzeria called COMET PING PONG with #Pizzagate. That aspect began after emails from John Podesta released by WikiLeaks alluding to ′pizza parties′ which were actually code words for various types of sex. The code depended on the topping of the said pizza, which referred to the age, gender and even ethnicity of the desired sexual partners.

Was Jill Stein the 2016 presidential candidate of the Green Party or the GREED Party? That is the question we need to ask as Stein is asking supporters to give her another $1 Million dollars. Apparently, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will undertake no action to begin a vote recount until Jill Stein, or one of her cohorts, provides $1 Million dollars up front. As a result, Stein is now looking at filing a lawsuit in federal courts to force a recount in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the Wisconsin vote recount which began on Thursday has thus far produced only 7 additional votes, 2 for Hillary Clinton and 5 more votes for Donald Trump, who won the state by some 22,000 votes. A vote recount in Michigan is set to begin on Tuesday and could wind up costing Michigan taxpayers as much as $12 Million dollars!

If there is one lesson to be learned thanks to President-Elect Donald J. Trump, it is that he has forced the advocates of ′politics-as-usual′ to reveal themselves for the fools which they are! Two blatant examples of this are the so-called ′Conservatives′ of radio talk show host Mark Levin and National Review writer Kevin Williams. Their reaction to Donald Trump saving over 1,100 jobs in Indiana from being eliminated by Carrier is nothing short of crazy! Williams is now questioning the whole concept of ′supply-side-economics′, including how tax cuts stimulate economic growth. Meanwhile, Levin says that what Trump did was unconstitutional, and actually compared Trump with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. REALLY??? Even Sarah Palin is upset about what Trump did. I guess she doesn′t want a job in his administration? The world, perhaps even the Universe, has been turned upside-down.

President-Elect Donald J. Trump began his USA Thank You Tour 2016 yesterday. Over 17,000 people packed the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio last night to hear him. But, first, Trump went to Indiana with his running mate, the Governor of Indiana, Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence, to visit a Carrier Corporation plant saved by Trump. Scheduled to be closed and jobs shipped to Mexico, Donald Trump intervened on behalf of the workers who were soon to be laid off. Trump and Pence have stopped two plants from being closed and saved over 1,100 jobs. The first success in Trump′s plan to Make America Great Again.